Adobe Photoshop 7.0/CS2 9.0 Freeze Problem

Thats for performance

No. With low system resources, that's for survival :-)

It might be worth resetting the Preferences file (as detailed in the FAQs) just in case they have become corrupt after a crash or bad shut-down.

And do check you have plenty of free space (and the other things mentioned above) Lack of room to breathe will close PS down in no time. If your HD is found to be fuller than expected, do a search for any orphaned .TMP files - they can be HUGE! And remember, no HD should be allowed to become more than 80% full. Otherwise you'll have no room for those dynamic temp files to expand, not to mention your regular defrag taking forever!

Failing all that, Len's suggestion of bad RAM might well be the answer. PS works RAM really hard, and many a stick has been known to fail whilst still working okay with lesser applications.

Chrisjbirchall,

Thats for performance, my Adobe Photoshop freezes out of just working on it after a few minutes or by applying a filter. But, thanks, I will do that when my Photoshop is fixed.

With so very little on-board memory, you need to be careful not to have the amount allocated to PS set too high.

Photoshop ships with the default allocation set to 55%. In your set-up I would take this down to 40% or lower.

If you don't, you will be starving other running apps., eg: Bridge and many of the third party plus-ins which run outside of Photoshop's allocation. Once this happens the OS will start paging out to virtual memory, slowing things to a crawl.

Also, make sure you have at least 10 to 20GB of free, defragmented, scratch space, preferably on a different physical drive to the OS.

Photoshop uses the scratch disk as it's main "memory" with the physical RAM acting as a kind of cache.

Hope this helps get things back on track.

Chris.

Bob,

EPOX 3VSA Apollo Pro Chipset,
I installed VIA Hyperion Pro 5.09A Drivers.

LenHewitt

I used to run Adobe Photoshop CS2 in this same computer before with no problems at all. Although its a bit slow, i still could make graphics out of it. And thats what i'm after. I dont really care about speed that much for graphic designs. Unless i will be using a lot of filters.

Thanks

What motherboard? There was problem way back in the day with Asus boards.

Bob

Well, you can't expect CS2 to run very well on a Pentium 3 with 512
MBytes of RAM. It really doesn't have anywhere near enough horsepower.

You should be able to run 7 reasonably well (if a bit slow) on it, however.

BUT if the whole system is freezing, that definitely points to a
hardware problem - probably a bad RAM stick, but could also be your
processor on the way out or a component on the motherboard failing.

Probably time for a new system as it doesn't sound as though the one
you've got is worth spending money on.